Benjamin Balch News Today

The marker on Route 9 notes the reinterred graves in Pine Grove Cemetery of two members of the Balch household.

A new highway marker in New Hampshire will highlight the gravesite of a former slave who became the town nurse in Barrington. It also honors the gravesite of Rev. Benjamin Balch.

The marker on Route 9 notes the reinterred graves in Pine Grove Cemetery of two members of the Balch household -- The Rev. Benjamin Balch, the first chaplain of the Continental Navy, and a woman named Aggie, who lived out her life in Barrington after her emancipation and became known as the town's nurse.

BARRINGTON, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's latest historical highway marker notes the gravesites of two people in Barrington, including an African American woman who was enslaved as a child and who nursed the town's sick residents during a severe epidemic.

The marker on Route 9 notes the reinterred graves in Pine Grove Cemetery of two members of the Balch household.